Hi,
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 08:55, Paul Förster <paul.foers...@gmail.com> wrote:
> no, with Patroni, replicas are always initiated by Patroni. Patroni copies
> the whole PGDATA including everything (postgresql.conf, etc.) in it to the
> replica site. When launching Patroni for the first time, all you need is its
> yaml configuration file and an empty PGDATA. It then will copy the whole
> master's PGDATA as is, launch the replica database cluster and start
> replication.
That's not correct, Patroni will happily pick up the existing data directory.
> Even if Patroni uses pg_basebackup internally (which I assume it does), there
> is no way to pass parameters to it.
This is also not correct. One can specify arbitrarily parameters for
pg_basebackup in the Patroni config file:
postgresql:
basebackup:
tablespace-mapping: /foo=/bar
waldir: /my/waldir
Regards,
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Alexander Kukushkin
